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Sorry for the delay, was away from keyboards for a while. As to a "sample file", just start planmaker with an empty file, add "test" (w/o the quotes) in A1 and a "test,test" (again, no quotes) in B1 and export this "spreadsheet" as .csv as described in my OP. ...

I am exporting a spreadsheet as a .csv file. Options used are the default, with the exception of the character set where I use UTF-8 w/o BOM. I'm then feeding the .csv to another programme with the view to create a .vcf file. This works... mostly. Problem is that some fields in the original spreadsh...

This is beginning to get ridiculous. My starting point is a PC with an activated FO2021. /etc/SoftMaker/offree2021.lic has 1688 bytes. This version runs with all SSDs and USB sticks I throw at it but it does not run with that single 256GB SSD drive . Instead it wants to re-activate. So I follow @mar...

Yes, it is. That file is world readable before I insert the drive and it is still world readable after inserting the drive. I have also checked its md5 checksum before and after, it doesn't change. When the drive is inserted, planmaker just does its waiting game (for a minute or so, then there's a &...

Ah, so it's the fault of my system or OS... which strangely runs every other application I've ever thrown at it w/o problems (including Freeoffice 2018 whose license file lives in the very same directory and is not touched at all). But even if my system would somehow on every reboot zero out that fi...

Hm... no word from SoftMaker, even after more than a week. So I assume that this is sitting more at the fishy end of things. Anyway, as I can't get FreeOffice2021 to run (or rather, to activate) in a reliable fashion and since textmaker 2021 has lost the capability to export to epub, it's back to tr...

As I wrote in another thread here, the activation process for FO2021 is broken. If SoftMaker think they need such a measure then they should make it easy and RELIABLE. I have described some of the problems I had in the other thread which SoftMaker so far has chosen to ignore. Anyway, on my Linux ins...

I am having real trouble getting the FreeOffice2021 version of planmaker to run. Whenever I start planmaker after a fresh (re-)boot, it wants to re-activate itself with the SoftMaker website though I have already done that before. So I went through that a couple of times but this is clearly not goin...

+1 This is annoying, non-standard behaviour.

For those who are interested in this, here's one pretty significant difference I've just discovered: the older version of TextMaker (2018) can save a file as an ePub whereas the 2021 version can't. That's precisely the sort of thing I meant in my OP. And there may be other similar oopsies :cry: So w...

Partly answering my own questions, it seems the Android apps (though free) need an in-app payment to print stuff and perhaps for other things as well. That's fine by me but I still think it's strange that an app that's touted as "FREE" in the end is not necessarily free. But that's probabl...

Is there a changelog as to what has changed between FO2018 and FO2021? (I am not after a comparison between paid and free, rather I'd like to know whether an upgrade does make sense... there are quite a few free apps which after an "upgrade" were actually less powerful than before :-/ Not ...